True Terrifying Ghost Stories | Night Terrors, Red Door Yellow Door & La Llorona (x347)

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Oh my god, I just looked at one of your subject lines.

Are we talking about dating life or are we talking about the time someone's ghost was addicted to porn?

Stop it.

Hi.

Hello.

Hello everyone.

doing?

This is Two Girls One Ghost.

Two Girls One Ghost. We are your ghostesses. That is Karin.

Hello.

I'm Sabrina and this is an encounters episode where we read your stories. Did I slur my word?

I don't know. My brain just kind of stopped working.

You looked at me as if like something I did something and I was like, "Oh, no." No, no, no, no, no. Cuz I'm post bachelorette party, who knows what's wires are not crossing. Or maybe they're

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getting crossed.

a bachelorette. I survived a meteor.

I'm so sad I missed it.

It's also it feels so weird to even talk about current events knowing that this comes out in like

in September.

Yeah.

[laughter]

And but we're recording in June first today.

Yeah.

But it's June.

Yeah, I know.

to be so crazier for you cuz it will be September.

Yeah.

We're traveling through time.

Crazy. Yeah, you missed two sonic booms cuz it was in South Carolina before you went there.

Well,

And then

actually, I was the sonic boom in Charleston.

Honestly, [laughter] that could be.

my touching down.

two days before Sabrina comes, the the city tries to explode.

the aliens have been looking for me and they got their wires crossed.

Oh, shoot. And that was their little tantrum. They're "Kaboom! She's not here."

Ah.

Bummer. But yeah, it made me realize we could all die at any instant and we'd never get alerted on our phones.

Meanwhile, my only thing was, "Damn it, I missed it."

I mean, it was kind of cool.

Yeah.

Like it was scary in the moment.

Yeah. My

wasn't overly scary.

I downloaded

We thought it like

You did?

Because that was my like June 1st I'll

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download Hinge and

Okay.

I downloaded it at the airport.

[laughter]

Hungover.

did you say you were in?

Uh Boston.

Okay.

Um but one of the things is like what is like your biggest regret and it's I wrote that I have not been abducted by aliens.

Yeah.

It's gotten a lot of responses, but not from the people you want responses from.

I don't know, you need someone with humor.

Yes, but Hinge is a scary place.

What? I feel like almost everyone I know has met their partner on Hinge.

Sure, but there there's two like Raya there was not enough options on it.

Oh.

Hinge there's just too many and they're not of highest caliber.

Well,

that I found yet.

Unfortunately for you, I will say my experience with Hinge was like there were like a couple new people every year. But but like mostly cuz Boston's so small, it's going to be the same group over and over and over again. Then you're going to start recognizing the people at the bars and out on the streets.

Well, good thing I don't go out often, so.

But you go on walks. Like I feel like hm walking I would just feel like oh

I'm head down.

I've seen that person on here.

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I'm looking at the squirrels in the trees, not the people I'm walking past.

You know what I'm so excited for? It's the um Love is Blind Boston.

I have tea about it.

What?

My hairdresser knows a guy who is on it and I can't say it's going to look good for him.

I don't know if they've announced it. They already filmed it.

Cuz Brian I know Brian and I keep being like what are the chances we know someone on it? But then we're also like but we're a little older in the demographic now. Like if this were like 5 years ago

the guy that my friend knows or my hairdresser knows is like in his 30s.

Mhm.

Yeah, but apparently it's not not a good look.

to apply, you said no.

Yeah, absolutely not.

Then my friend Chris I try I texted him and tried to do the like odds are you apply to Love is Blind, you know, and then they'll say like one in five or whatever you do three two one and he just refused to do it with me. He was like no.

Well, here's if this helps anyone, my hairdresser is married with a child and they DM'd her asking if she wanted to be on it. She's like, "I'm married."

Wow. I'm insulted I didn't get a message.

You're also married.

As a Boston

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with a child.

Who has a microphone who talks about being a Boston local. I can't believe that.

Anyhoo, um

I guess I was too pregnant to be on the show. [laughter]

I do think they should do a Love Island but people in their 30s.

See, I've never seen Love Island so I have no idea. I just see people like arguing in hot tubs.

Yeah, but I just feel like make it more accessible for for the older people. [snorts]

For us in our 30s.

trying to get a second time go.

We're so old.

Anyway, hi. We're here to read ghost stories.

Mhm.

And occasionally I guess talk about my dating life and

Well, you know what? This was appropriate because our theme for Encounters was kitchen sink so anything goes. There's no theme.

And that's kind of what you get when you come to listen to Two Girls One Ghost.

it's like are we talking about

Oh my god, I just looked at one of your subject lines.

Are we talking about dating life or are we talking about the time someone's ghost was addicted to porn?

Stop it.

I pulled this specifically for you. I was like, "Oh my god, I can't believe I'm getting to grab because it was only sent 6 days ago." So the second it came

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through I was like rushing cuz I feel like you always see everything like in the 25 seconds it comes into the inbox.

Oh, I'm refreshing our inbox maybe every 5 minutes.

Yeah. No, I ran. I ran. I sprinted. I was out of breath grabbing this email before Sabrina could see it.

I'm a 12-year-old [clears throat] boy.

[laughter]

Subject line definitely geared towards Sabrina. Okay.

ghost was addicted to porn

Hello lovely ladies in TGO G community. I'm Marissa. I feel like I hardly meet a Marissa in the wild but when I listen I start to think that we're all here because I hear my name so often in stories told. Okay, so there is going to be a warning of talk of drugs and sexual assault in this story.

I'm new to the Patreon family and I've been going through Campfire Stories. On Campfire Stories number 31, also it's live every week but it's also available for replay, so you can always go back and rewatch everyone's stories.

Bonus content.

There was someone named Katie who told her story of a haunted house. And honestly, it felt exactly like my story growing up. Except, I basically grew up

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as an only child because my brother was 22 and out of the house and I was 12. I was alone. I felt fear being in just that one house, having night terrors basically every single night.

And I was so happy on the nights that I wouldn't dream. I would also get chased around the house in my dreams. And at the time, I was terrified of dinosaurs, like the '90s dinosaurs Disney movie,

Mhm.

which is so very scary. And in my nightmares, a T-Rex would somehow be chasing me through the house. I would hide under the bed. And this happened a lot.

Poor Marissa.

And I was like, "Oh my gosh, am I having a bad dream? Is this sleep paralysis? What is this?" But I'd wake up and I'd be on the bed and I wouldn't be able to move. And it was during this time that it felt like maybe I was still in a dream because I would see these two black cats, but they'd have these like Cheshire smiles, like the Alice in Wonderland cat. And they would be holding me down.

Okay.

And the memory of it is so strong. I remember just feeling so uncomfortable and trapped. So, everything that I went

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through, paranormal-wise, was at this specific house. I don't remember how my parents even came into buying it. We lived there for 4 years before my mom left and my dad

it was just there.

Yeah. The little demonic cats summoned you, pinning you down and

Steal your soul.

Steal your soul, give you nightmares every night. We lived there for about 4 years before my mom left. And unfortunately, my dad was into harder drugs and he took all of our money and I had to grow up being very strong for my mom. Uh and she cried a lot. The house might have contributed to some of these heated emotions happening and I wonder if I dreamed that it was coming. I've had a dream where me and my mom are in the trailer house living room. And this is the house that we lived in before we were in the haunted house. I was looking through the windows towards the direction of where the haunted house was and at the time I didn't know of this house. So, it was just dark and in the distance I could see this bright red glowing over this particular area. It was like a bright fire in the distance.

Mhm.

But pretty close, like maybe like 2 miles away. And I remember asking my mom

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in the dream, "What is that light in the distance?" And she casually answered, "Oh, that's the devil." And now my mom would never say those words, even if it was true. And it wasn't until I was an adult that I thought back and realized that that is where the haunted house was that we moved to.

Dread. Demon. Great.

I now have two lovely cats, Luna who's 11 and living her best life, and after moving in with my boyfriend, his cat Max, our gray tuxedo. And if you're curious about a porn-loving ghost,

I'm not sure. Sure am.

I'm not sure why this would happen. I honestly think that maybe this thing just wanted to prank me or terrify me a lot of times. But we had Dish TV and it liked to change the channels a lot. Maybe it was just weird interference, but one time I was in the room and I could see down the hall to my parents' room and they were both laying in bed watching TV. The door was open and the ghost starts changing the TV on me. It keeps going to some random porn channel.

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I would change it back really quickly and look over my shoulder because I was 12 and my parents were there and and they just never noticed. They kept doing their thing. But then once again, my ghost would change the channel back to this one porn channel.

What a sicko.

This happens one more time.

I know. She's trying to get her in trouble.

Watch on your own time.

Oh my god. This happens one more time before finally my TV changes again, right back to the porn channel. This happens one more time before I finally call my mom and I say, "I don't know what's happening. The channel keeps changing." And so she stands there for almost 2 minutes and nothing happens. As soon as she gets up

Mhm.

and walks away, she's not even in her room yet, the TV changes back to the porn channel.

I stopped calling my parents for weird defense because honestly they just like didn't really believe me most of the time. And after we moved, I stopped getting terrified, so I kind of forgot about all of it. Well, I love you girls. I listen anytime I can. From Marissa.

I feel like that porn loving ghost is I don't like him cuz it feels

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Well, it's inappropriate.

It's super inappropriate and it's not trying to get her in trouble. Because other if it was, it would have

done it in front of her mom.

Yeah, or done it to make it look like Marissa did it right when the mom was coming or whatever.

It's trying to expose her to something.

Which we don't approve of.

No.

Yeah, that house is definitely haunted.

I'm curious how old Marissa is.

Now?

Yeah, just to like understand when this happened, too. Cuz I feel like these were the days where it's like people always talk about oh, there's no modern ghosts and like how do you know if you have a modern ghost? But like what if there was a modern ghost in this house at this time? It was like another teenager cuz I remember

Mhm.

I've said this like 500 times on the podcast, but like I remember getting in trouble for like one or two porn links or something on our family computer. But it was a time that in AIM, people would be like oh, click on this link and it would be like freaking meetspin.com or something.

You introduced me to meetspin.com in my adult years.

People would like jokingly send

Yeah.

porn links and you'd open it and you'd panic.

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Yeah.

And I didn't know about cookies or deleting your history or anything like that.

I still don't understand cookies.

Me, neither.

Why are they called cookies?

Maybe that's why my computer

And why are we clearing our cookies?

Why are you giving me cookies if I if you don't want me to have them anyway?

Right. Like cookies are edible, not tangible. Weird.

That's what I don't understand.

Does anyone understand cookies? I don't know. Well, okay.

Yeah.

That is a haunted place.

There's a lot going on in this one place.

There's also a lot going on in my next couple of stories. And which [clears throat] one do I start with? They're all scary.

[laughter]

Oh, kitchen sinks. Sabrina finds them all scary.

Well, interestingly, cuz we have two folders in our inbox that like we will if we see things we pull them into the those folders.

Yeah.

I have about 340 in mine. You have 97 in yours. So, whenever we do a kitchen sink, I go to my folder.

So, you just pull.

And naturally, the ones that I have pulled into my folder are often the scariest ones.

Yeah.

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red door, yellow door & demons

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So, I'm going to read one that is called Red Door, Yellow Door, and Demons.

Oh, okay.

Hi, my name is Abby. I just started listening to your podcast about a year ago, and I consider myself a pretty in-tune person. My hungover self wanted to read insane person.

[laughter]

Okay, Abby said I have a lot of smaller experiences from my haunted house, but this is by far the most memorable. I will change everyone's names except for mine, for privacy. To give a little background of the situation, my house is haunted. I've known this since before I could even talk, and I strongly believe it, and I have even through my teens.

Oh, before she could even talk? That makes me so sad to think of just like a toddler walking around being like, "Wow, I don't really know what life is, but I feel like these dead people hanging out probably not a part of normal life for some."

Everywhere in this house is kind of equal in creepiness, but nowhere has actual bad vibes, except for the basement.

Mhm.

With the amount of experiences that have

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happened down there, this one included, I definitely think this is where all of the hauntings come from. That might be because of something that happened before we moved in, because it's over 100 years old, or it might be because no one wanted to play the Ouija board with me when I was six, so I took it upon myself to disobey my parents, and I played alone.

At six? I mean, if you're seeing ghosts from before you're you're even born, I like can't comprehend what a 6-year-old is like right now. Feel like I only know toddlers or like 10-year-olds.

I know.

So like six?

Yeah.

What are you saying? What What questions are you asking the board?

We don't get that story right now. Either way, the house is haunted.

It's a good setup for who this person is.

Yes. For our girl Abby.

Yeah.

So, it started when me and my friend were hanging out and decided to look up scary games to play. We looked through a few, but they were all either too mundane or too scary, and that is when we found Red Door, Yellow Door. The game is simple. One person lays down in the other's lap, and the other is a guide. The person laying down closes their eyes, and then

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tries to visualize doors, and focus on what the guide is chanting. The guide starts chanting, "Red door, yellow door, any other color door," until the person laying down goes into this sort of trance. Now, the person laying down who's in the trance, they should be able to visualize something like a hallway, doors, a room, etc., and the guide is supposed to guide them through. There are also rules that both people need to know in order to play, but especially the guide because they are the one who is fully conscious. There are lots of rules, but the main one that is involved with this story is to avoid people in the trance. Basically, this game is an exploration of your consciousness and it's best to avoid other people if you see them in your trance-like state. In some variations, when you see a man in a suit standing in front of you, you are supposed to end the game. But we also got all of our information from TikTok and Reddit, so who knows how relevant this is. But we knew all these rules. Me and my friend were in my basement and we decided to try it. My basement has a pull-out bed where we could play the game. And we also were

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like, that's where all the scary [ __ ] happens, so what better place to play the game?

Also, Abby just brought something up that I've never thought about where like when you're playing a paranormal game, we're just blindly trusting the rules that we read online or like whatever source we get it from.

Yeah, that's why they're dangerous.

Yeah, I never really thought about that.

at the top is like, play it at your own risk.

What if someone's purposefully manipulating you and giving you the wrong steps in the game to get you trapped?

Yeah, and also you have to trust a human.

Yeah.

Okay, so I tried it first where I went into a trance and my friend was guiding me. My younger brother was there for emotional support, but I couldn't get into the trance. I did have pretty bad paranoia after and I was convinced that my brother and my friend weren't them for about 10 minutes. Slowly though, I was able to get back to my right mind. After that, no one really wanted to try it, but somehow I convinced my friend. After you just spent 10 minutes being like, you're not who you say you are.

Yeah, that's so freaking

work, but you're not who you say you are. So I guided my friend and everything was going pretty well until

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she came out of her room and saw an old man. The way she described him was that he was hunched over, bald, smiling. She said his smile was so wide it was freaking her out. I started getting freaked out, too, so I told her to walk away, but she said she couldn't. She described it as being frozen in place and then said he was getting closer to her, but neither of them was moving.

Ooh.

I was very freaked out.

That's so trippy.

But I kept my voice calm, and I said, "Walk away." When again, she said she couldn't, I asked if I should wake her up, and she stopped responding. I woke her up after a minute of not responding, and she was very dazed. By then, her parents were there to pick her up, and on the way out, I asked if she remembered anything about the man. She looked at me confused, and said, "No." About a week later, we hung out again, and I asked if she could remember now. She said, "Only bits and pieces, but that all week she was having dreams about that man."

Okay, clearly it worked.

I told her the full story, and she was shocked about how little she actually remembered from the night when we played the game. Eventually, the dreams stopped, but after that, she texted me

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that something else happened. According to her, she was at a park swinging, and looked out into the wooded area of the park, where she saw a creature on four really long legs, with a humanoid body smiling at her. She said, "It was the man's smile."

Ew. Ugh, I hate this, cuz I'm also picturing like I haven't seen the movie The Backrooms, but I've seen like the trailer and like clips and like things about the different monsters, and I'm picturing the one version of the guy that has like the peg leg.

Yeah.

Ugh.

She said she couldn't explain it, but she knew it was him. So, I sat there terrified, and thanked whatever god had let me not fall into that trance. And if after all that, you think we never played red door, yellow door again, unfortunately, you would be mistaken. About 3 weeks later, it was my 14th

3 weeks? Not even enough time to convince yourself it wasn't really that big of a deal?

I mean, apparently Abby did. It was my 14th birthday, and I had a party with many of my friends, including the one that I'd first played red door, yellow door with. And for some reason, after we ate cake, we decided to ask if anyone else wanted to play. Where did we

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go? Down to the basement.

Mhm.

We shared the dangers, the rules, and soon everyone was trying it. And it was going pretty well until a girl asked if I could be her guide. I said, "Yes." She was in the trance. Everything was going okay until she came out of one of the rooms and said she saw a man with a really wide unnatural smile. I started asking if she wanted me to wake her up, but similar to my friend a couple weeks prior, she stopped responding. So I woke her up. When she woke up, she was evidently shook and had to stay laying down. Everyone else stopped playing and started watching us to make sure she was okay.

Yeah, I do because it's hard like especially someone having a hard time waking up. You're like what's the difference between a like poorly timed medical emergency and something paranormal?

Right. She suddenly started crying and pointing at something in the corner of the basement. Everyone looked, turned. There was no one there. We were all confused. But my friend and I locked eyes, the friend who I played with the first time. We both knew what was happening. That thing, it was here. And the girl who was laying started screaming, "He's here. He's smiling." I

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immediately started saying things for intentions and protection. I repeated things like, "You are not welcome here. You need to leave. We give you no power. You cannot attach yourself to anyone here in this house." I was calm, but I was firm. Some other people in there, they did not have good instincts or experience of what I do, which was evident when one of my friends grabbed a toy sword and tried to hit the area that this other girl was pointing to.

Oh my god.

Which I felt instantly made it a lot worse and was undoing what I had been doing with my words.

Can't just punch an invisible area.

Mhm.

I kept my voice calm and I kept trying to keep my mind calm. I started to feel angry. I don't know how to explain it, but I knew I didn't feel angry, but there was this overwhelming amount of anger and hatred invading my mind. And soon, instead of my voice being calm, I was yelling and screaming at it. I was still saying the same words, but the intention behind them had completely changed. And soon, I wasn't even saying the same things. I was swearing at it, saying that I hate it, saying that it would die alone. Other stuff that I truly can't remember. I was not feeling

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like myself. And I was making it worse by giving it this negative energy. Like it was almost wanting me to say the things I was saying. I took a moment, I calmed down, and then I continued with what I was saying before in a calm way. Thankfully, he disappeared. We were doing everything to try to calm the other girl down, and with it gone, finally, she was able to. She was sitting there quiet when she covered her face and said, "He's back." This time she pointed to the small window in the basement. I launched back into setting boundaries while asking what she saw. She said he was crouching down and his neck was bent so that he could look into the window.

Oh, which is so creepy cuz it's just like proves how tall he is.

And he was still smiling. After about 20 more seconds of me setting boundaries and intentions, she suddenly stood up and said, "We need to go outside." I asked her why, and she said that this man had a little boy with him and he was going to kill the little boy. We all started to assure her that there was no boy that he was just trying to make her come outside and he was trying to trick her. She started crying and

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hiding her face because she said the man was showing her a visual of him strangling a little boy.

Which reminds me so much of another story we read, probably like a year or two ago, where someone was getting visions of

horrible things.

Like murders and kidnappings and stuff, and they weren't sure what they were.

It's very similar to Dominus, too.

Yeah.

Rick. I kept saying words of protection, the others calmed her down, and soon enough he did disappear. Soon after that party ended, I asked this friend if she had seen him again the next week. She just shook her head, but she looked traumatized. I never asked her about it again, and I still talk to the first friend who I played with, and after discussing what happened, we absolutely believe it was the same entity and that it was definitely demonic. And now, we don't play Red Door, Yellow Door anymore. Thank you so much for reading my story. You guys might be the only ones who believe it. Stay spooky, Abby. Does it not remind you of Talk to Me? I always think about the hand that's like hovering above my head on the table.

Right. Oh my god.

A whole party of everyone being like, "Ooh, let me take turns to be in this

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trance and see what's on the other side.

like it's so wild to like I understand it's kind of like the don't push the red button sort of thing where people are tempted. Like you're we're just saying some of your friends having really hard times.

Mhm.

And you're still willing to try?

I guess all it takes is two terrible experiences?

Yeah. You talking about the hand is reminding me of one of the skits that What's his name? Like Clay Barker? Whatever the writer and director of Obsession.

Mhm.

The creator of Obsession is they he has like comedy troop the I talked to me skit.

No way.

Yeah.

Oh, that's funny.

was like it was funny cuz he's like just being this modern like annoying ghost but like from like 2010 and he keeps asking about Kesha.

That's my kind of ghost. Any ghost is allowed to come talk to me about Kesha.

Yeah. But he's like doing like things that are just so of that like early YouTube like the Kesha era. He's like And the guy's like ew, gross.

See, that's like but that's the ideal version of playing a game like that. You would want a ghost like that not one

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like this creepy smiling man who's going to follow you for weeks and weeks and weeks.

Exactly.

Ooh.

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my time in a cult

Okay, I have one called and it's not overly paranormal, but I feel like we just don't get emails like this. It's called my time in a cult.

Kitchen sink.

It's the kitchen sink.

We got to Now is the time to

Not be in a cult.

there's there's definitely paranormal elements. Let me Let me just turn it

it's a cult.

Okay. Hello, I just wanted to start off by saying I absolutely love your podcast so much. Okay, now I'll get to the story.

Yay.

This all started when I was 12, maybe 13, and at the time my mom started working in warehouses, in which she met a lady that befriended her. She seems pretty normal to me at the time and I never really had expected what I saw when she invited us over to her house one day. A few weeks before that though, my mom had been leaving at night, always around 10:00 p.m., and then she'd come back almost after midnight. And when she

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did, she smelled like herbs and smoke. When I would ask her what was going on, she simply said that she was getting cleansings done.

Okay.

Not sure if you've ever heard of a Santeria.

I ain't got no Santeria. I ain't got no crystal ball.

We heard.

But she claimed that her friend's husband practiced it. At the time I didn't really question her much, mostly because I didn't really understand the extent of it.

Mhm.

But that all changed one night when she told my sister and I to come along with her.

Okay.

Later I found out that it was actually the lady that told my mom to take us that night. Ooh.

Hey.

Which cuz it's a religion.

And also if you're like thinking you're doing healing, it's like oh

Of course I'll bring my kids.

your child suffering from hormones? She bleeds and culture guys come and attack

let's bring her and do some cleansing.

Yeah.

And now I get it. When we arrived, we entered through her front door. I saw her sons, but they didn't talk to us. It seemed like they were kind of avoiding even looking at us. Still, we made our

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way to the backyard, and I will say never in my life will I forget just how overwhelming and absolutely wretched the smell was that hit me there.

What the heck was it?

It smelled like blood and dead animals. And there were blood stains in the concrete, and there was literally a head of a goat on a stick, and then candles around it. Needless to say, I was shocked. I was disturbed. And in front of the altar were chairs, and people were already there sitting. I would say maybe there were a total of six or seven people including us. The first time there, we had a reading done, a cleansing. And what I came to realize was there was a full-blown possession being done right in front of my eyes.

Wait, a possession being done, not an exorcism?

I don't know.

Like they're actively trying to get someone possessed?

The man in charge of the group would come along wearing all white. He would be barefoot. He wore a few beaded necklaces, and he would sip out of a metal cup. Then he would take a few draws of a cigar and start chanting in a different language. He would say to hold

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hands and to not let go, and then he would say not to look at him, but I did anyway.

How can you Well, it's like pressing the red button. Don't press it. Don't look at me. You're going to look more.

His eyes rolled back revealing only white, and his voice changed. His posture changed to that of an old man, and he spoke in tongues. His wife was the one that translated for him. Over the course of a year, my sister and I had to go through a few very disturbing moments. For starters, we had to wear all white nightgowns, and it was always in the middle of the night. We had to sit in a metal tub under the moonlight. The water contained herbs, pigeon blood, alcohol that he spit in there, rose petals, and chewed tobacco. They gathered us, they chanted, all while he was like possessed. He blew smoke at us. spit alcohol on us. He had burning herbs and he would run herbs through our hair and our body. And after that we'd have to go to this room that was filled with all sorts of bones on the floor and statues of deities that

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he worshipped. This is so scary and I can't believe their mom was like Yeah.

But this is like an active religion. Like it's

Yeah.

It exists today.

He read my cards and he gave me my own beaded necklaces and he said I have to wear them now. Another instance he would assign us things like to bring goats or pigeons or doves or pigs and then he would sacrifice them and have us drink some of the blood.

That's so dangerous.

The speaking in tongues things doesn't freak me out cuz I feel like that's part of a lot of religions.

And also with this, we say that it's about all religions. Like inherently religion isn't good or evil. It's how the people who are participating in it use it and practice it that can change the perception and beliefs.

Oh, absolutely.

Yeah.

And I feel like drinking straight blood from butchers

do it.

animals is probably not the best.

you do it on your own, fine. You chose to do that, but making children do that?

Just I mean uh guys, we have lived

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through a pandemic. Is this stuff still happening? I feel like

The answer is yes.

Germaphobe wise

The answer is yes. People swap spit with strangers every day.

I guess that's true. I began to feel pity for the animals even though I feel like at that time I was kind of being brainwashed and believing that maybe this was no big deal. But I asked my mom one night to let me stay home. And at first she agreed, but later she said no, I did have to go. The man was asking for us. Around that time I started going to church and I kind of felt like what we were doing was wrong, but I was still chasing religion. Eventually I quit going and my mom did too and I would say that I guilt tripped her and that should have been the end of everything, right? Only it wasn't. My sister and I started having nightmares. I experienced sleep paralysis so terrifying that I was afraid to go to bed every night.

Oh.

I would hear voices. I would see things. I would have nightmares every single time I wasn't having sleep paralysis. And my sister started sleepwalking and talking and became the target for physical attacks. The funny thing about

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this was that we both kept it a secret from each other until one

there's something funny about it?

Yeah.

What? Where?

I mean, they've already like survived so much it feels like with just not understanding like what is going on around them that I can understand being like, "Okay, well, this is the lesser maybe of

of it all? Yeah.

of it all." We kept it a secret from each other until one night we must have both been so exhausted and we came clean to each other. That day I told her the name of a demon that had been appearing in my dreams. She looked at me in absolute horror because she told me that it told her the same exact name.

Oh.

Oh, what is it?

Now there's a bug in here somehow.

How did it get in here?

know. It wasn't in here before.

Ugh. What should we do?

I don't know. I feel like it's it's going crazy.

Go to the flame.

I feel like our survival instincts are very low right now.

Oh, it's on the ground. Let me grab it.

Where? Ew.

beetle. I'll go release it. I did not squish it for anyone who's wondering.

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My sister told me that it had told her the exact same name. And at that moment we knew it was no accident the things that we were going through, they were not going to go away by ignoring them. So we, at the age of 13 and 9,

babies.

I got they're so much younger than I even thought.

Why both your stories so far have young children being privy to things that they shouldn't?

I don't know. Yours, too.

Sure, but they willingly chose it.

[laughter]

We decided we would go to whatever church was closest to us and beg the priest to bless our crucifix and to pray for us. We carried holy water with us at all times. It sounds insane, but we swore it was necessary, especially because

insane. Do what you need.

I feel like that's bathing it. Like

Yeah.

Put holy water in your shampoo bottles. I feel like you like need more. Things escalated one day when we were home alone because my mom worked all day. We laid in bed and the entire bed started to shake. The lights flickered.

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We heard scratching on the wall. My sister panicked and screamed and I felt like the air got really thick and heavy. I froze in fear, but I'm also not the type to just take it. So, I grabbed her hand and we ran out of the front door. We refused to go back inside until my mom came back from work. She asked why we were outside at 10:00 p.m. and what had happened. And honestly, you could tell that she did believe us, but she also didn't do a thing about it. I felt so helpless until I came across this church. I told them everything that was happening and they literally held an exorcism for my sister and I. It was not like the ones on TV where like they're tied down and a few people are praying around them. They said that this would take more than one session. They told us that there was indeed a demonic force attached to us and that's when I came clean about everything that we had experienced, the cult we left behind. I mentioned all the threats that people had made about us not coming back and

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obviously now this makes sense, but it seems like there was something summoned to pester us for leaving.

Mhm. I'm shocked that the mom didn't experience more.

I know.

But maybe the girls were just easier targets.

Yeah.

Which also makes it worse. Makes me hate them more. And it's also like I'm I'm a little bit skeptical of like did the mom actually fully leave?

Oh, like oh, no. I hope not.

Was she secretly still participating?

Oh, jeez.

In total, my sister and I had two exorcisms and constant prayers. Things got scarier before they got better. I learned how to pray. I learned how to ask God for help. And I know this sounds so cliche or almost fake, but I really with all my heart just wanted everyone to know that I do believe God is real and so are demons. Even if you're not religious, there's something about how the name of God holds weight over this darkness. Like that is real. The room brightened. The air started getting lighter. I called out to God and the Archangels for help. And that is when I had one of the very last

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encounters that I've ever had with this dark entity. The room temperature dropped. The lights dimmed. The air was hard to breathe. I felt overwhelmed with the sense of dread. All signs were there. But despite our attempts at keeping this thing away, it was there. At the time I was so tired. I was so angry with it still messing with us after all this time. And that day I prayed to the Archangels out loud. I called to them. I called to God. I begged them for help. I was in tears. I repeated those words over and over. And then suddenly it was like a switch, a change in the room. I could feel the warmth around me. And in my head I heard a voice saying, "Keep praying. Don't open your eyes."

Wow.

It's so interesting.

It felt like there was spiritual warfare taking place around us.

Which is why they were like, "Keep your eyes closed. You don't want to see what's happening."

Battle between light and dark.

Jeez.

Anyway, the amount of trauma, fear, anxiety that this causes me to this day, it really does still haunt me. I strongly believe that my time in this

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cult opened my spirituality because I am very sensitive to the paranormal now. I see things. I hear things. It happens so often that it honestly almost seems normal. And I don't see this demonic entity anymore. But I do know for a fact that at times I can feel this thing in the back of my mind.

Hate that.

Anyway, thank you for reading. Hope you're not too disturbed. From Maria.

No, Maria, we're disturbed. And I'm very glad that you are no longer fighting I mean, it sounds like it's still kind of in the back of the mind.

Yeah.

But that she's not having to go participate and be in this.

Right. But like you know what? I almost feel like is this thing still stalking her or is it just that she's so open to the paranormal that it's almost like a normal thing too that like every once in a while something else is going to come along and you just have to keep up your guard. You have to keep your practices of like only letting certain things in.

Or also just the fear of it, just the

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memory of it is like strong enough to have it pop back in every once in a while to be like I remember you, too.

Right. But like the part two where there's like scratching on the walls and the bed is shaking. Like it feels so reminiscent of so many of like not the movie, but like the TV haunting in Connecticut, which was based on a real family or like the Smurl family possessions or like that just all of these

escalations.

Stories of yeah, like what happens in the house when there is a demon

patterns.

coming for you.

They have their MOs.

Damn.

You know who else has an MO? La Llorona.

Oh.

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La Llorona

this is from a different Abby, but Abby, who

Two Abbys.

didn't believe in La Llorona until she's our

See, the beauty of believing in everything is that nothing has to prove its existence to you. So, do you want to tempt fate or not?

Sometimes it will.

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Hi spooky beauties, I'm Abby. I love listening to your show. I guess listening to Spooky [ __ ] calms me. So, here's my spooky story. I'm not sure if you've heard of the urban legend by the name of La Llorona. I wouldn't call her an urban legend, I would call her a very real, very present

Yeah.

entity. I never believed in her cuz I don't really like to get into urban legends like that. Oops. Oops.

It is such a bit like it's I guess technically you could call it an urban legend, but like it's real.

Urban legend feels more like, you know, Emily's Bridge or like go here and little kids will push your car up the like La Llorona is not just in one location. Like it is all expansive. It is

Bodies of water could be in your bathtub. Yeah.

It's an entity.

In all seriousness though, I do get really uncomfortable talking about it. My husband is Hispanic fully, so he and his family really believe in this [ __ ] And I've always made fun of them. Well, my bad, fam. He is from Texas, way down south where La Llorona is prominent. So, there was one time where we went to visit his parents for a mini vacation. We live in

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Ohio, and I had found out I was pregnant with our now 6-year-old while we were there. The very night we found out, I went outside just to sit and relax by myself and soak in that Texas night air since I had never really been there before. I was outside sitting in the swing when all of a sudden I started to hear rustling around in the bushes not too far from the house. I thought, "Hmm, probably just a stray dog because down here there's a ridiculous amount of strays that wandered around." So, I ignored it. Then, I heard crying.

No.

Like a really distressed wailing. Now, I am Caucasian, but I have a Hispanic stepfather who's been my dad since I was seven. I was 25 at the time of this incident, and I am now 32. So, I grew up with Hispanic influence. I knew about her. So, my mind went to her when I heard this wailing. But, I was frozen, staring in the direction I heard the cry coming from. And that's when I saw her. She was far away, but I saw her, and I have never been the same since. She was just standing there, crying.

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And when she started to move, I tried so freaking hard to run inside, but I was frozen. I don't know what was wrong with me at all, but all I could do was just stare at her. Fortunately, my husband ended up coming outside. Don't know why, but the timing was great to see what I was doing. And the second he opened the door, she disappeared. She was gone. I was so freaked out, and also a little embarrassed about not believing my family and my husband's family about this, that I never told anyone. Not even him.

Oh my god. I am glad that La Llorona disappeared, because that's also proof that like wasn't actually someone who needed help.

Yes.

So, you don't have the guilt of being like, "Wait, did I misidentify or misconstrue that situation as being paranormal when like someone was actually in distress?"

No, it was La Llorona. I've never seen or heard her again, but I find myself paranoid a lot now that I have two young children. And where I live is very quiet. So, sometimes I find myself listening a little too hard at night. All I can do is hope she doesn't like Ohio, just like no one else does, so I don't know, but I am telling you,

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she's real. Texas? Zero out of 10 stars. Love you, Abby.

Texas and Ohio. We have Texas and Ohio's number one hater here.

[laughter]

I know, but she lives there.

Abby.

Oh my gosh.

she's just scared of I mean, I don't know that she's Ohio's hater. She likes it. She just knows everyone else hates Ohio. But I

Ohio was on my list of like if the apocalypse hits, I was like I'm going to go to Ohio. Cuz it's easy.

Interesting. It's just Jerry and Sierra living there.

[laughter]

Be fun to apocalypse with them.

It would be fun. No, but it was before we even knew them cuz I was like it's hilly, but it's not mountainous. There's a bunch of

Mhm.

woods, there's a bunch of deer, there's like you know, bodies of water, like things to live

off of.

And then recently, I think I told Jerry and Sierra in a group text I was like it's off my apocalypse list.

Cuz so many weird things were happening there.

Cuz it was like a freaking meteor comes down, there's alien things.

the Bigfoot was there.

There was like a freaking tornado or like wind storm that like ripped everything apart. I was like all right, Ohio's actually maybe the number one

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spot that things are going to start happening.

I guess the one promising thing that we can learn and garner from Abby's story is that La Llorona is not in Ohio. Yeah.

As far as we know.

Well, yeah, I was going to say

There's still time.

like there's other stories where like you're actually shocked at how far away from the country of origin La Llorona comes from like that she will travel. Cuz it also kind of feels like there's a connection to anyone who has like the ancestral line.

Mhm.

Not like related to her, but just like

Just Hispanic

Right. Origins.

Well, it is interesting too that the night she found out she was pregnant is when La Llorona came. Because with the origin story of La Llorona, it's said that she's looking for her children

Yeah.

and willing to steal yours.

[sighs]

I hope that she just gets a bad rap and that she's actually like

sad.

She's sad and maybe she's a protector of children and she comes in with like unruly energy to scare the bad people.

Mhm.

Maybe.

I don't know.

Just going back to your Ohio conversation, have you watched Paradise

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on Hulu?

No.

I just started it. I really like it. It's kind of like post-apocalyptic.

Oh, is it?

Yeah, I I didn't I had no idea what it was about. I really liked it.

new or is it

Season 2 came out probably early of 2026.

Okay.

It's two seasons. I just started season one.

All right, I'll start it.

I enjoy it.

But on that note, I have to take back a comment I said about Widows' Bay.

Oh.

Cuz Widows' Bay like there was

not being scary?

No, no, no, no, no. It's scary. But I was like, oh, it's not a comedy. It's just scary cuz there were like a couple like little lines here and there where I was like, oh, that's humorous. Episode 4 and on, I was like, this is this [ __ ] is so funny.

Oh, I think it's very funny.

It's so dark, but it's also like I feel like that's when the characters get really comfortable in themselves and you see all like the wild sides of them.

Yeah.

Patricia throwing her party

Oh, hilarious.

couldn't when she like turns and it's not spoiling anything. It's been out for months. Watch it. When she turns and she has her like headdress on

Yeah.

You had your qualms. Like, my god, [laughter] I freaking love her.

you say anything?

Yeah. Yeah.

Um, what's your next story?

dragon in Honduras

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Okay. It's called I saw a dragon in Honduras.

Cool.

Great one for a kitchen sink.

Love.

Boo. Did I get you? My name is Nicholas, they/them. And whether this story constitutes as paranormal depends on who you ask. Is it a cryptid, fae, creature, folklore? I don't know.

That's still paranormal.

Yeah. I personally am someone who believes that dragons have lived or currently live on Earth like any other creature. I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this particular story. When I was 13, my church youth group went on a mission trip to Honduras. The trip was eye-opening. We were in a somewhat rural environment where we mostly helped out at the local orphanage. We painted their school building. We put on a VBS.

I don't know what that is.

Mm.

Well, thanks. Uh, sounds like maybe it was beneficial. And I still remember some of the songs that we translated into Spanish to sing with the kids. One day, we took a drive to a local shelter for the homeless and disabled. The drive took us through some beautiful, but also terrifyingly narrow mountain roads. I grew up in Missouri

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and I hadn't really seen so many red stone cliffs, much less towering mountains in my life.

Mhm.

My eyes were glued to the views the entire way there.

Sounds stunning.

Yeah, but also terrifying. Because like locals drive with such confidence, you know, that bus driver was like

Fine.

Zipping through that mountain range. It was on the way back down, as we crested the edge of one of the mountains, that my eyes caught onto this huge form gliding down from the sky above the mountain across from us. It was very far away, but I could tell it was gliding on two symmetrical wings attached to a thin body with no discernible limbs. The head appeared to be maybe triangular. It kind of looked like it had horns. The whole creature was snow white.

Well, that takes away my theory cuz I was like a condor?

But no. The whole creature was snow white, which I understand means yeah, okay, it could be an airplane. Except that the proportions were completely off for an airplane.

The wingspan was at least triple the

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size of its body.

Oh.

And the way that it was shaped, it seemed more like it was composed of some webbing stretched across like two or three long finger limbs or something like that.

Also, we've all seen enough planes to like know what a plane is.

Yeah, you like

Yeah.

You know what a plane is. That can't be misidentified. Possibly like some feathered wings. I don't know, it seemed like it came to a point, like a sharp point at the end.

Mhm.

And there was definitely an elbow and a wrist joint to the wings. I immediately started shouting at my friend to look out the window. Look out right now. And the creature dropped steadily through the air until eventually it disappeared over the backside of the mountain.

Wow.

Which is how we knew this thing was not a bird because oh my god, it flew back behind a mountain. So this thing had to be huge. My friend had not seen what I was pointing out because of course she hadn't, but the road led us around to the other far side of the mountain where this creature had been heading. But we saw no sign of any massive white flying creature that had reached down on the side of the mountain.

Cuz it's in its mountain cave.

Yes. It's back on its nest.

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What we saw instead was a charred and actively burning patch of grass. Green grass, mind you. No wood or brush. Nothing actively being burned. No signs of humans around. And so

But there was sign of dragon around.

Yes. And so now here are my biases. I was 15 years old. I was madly obsessed with dragons at the time. And for the first 17 years of my life, everything was dragons. Dragon birthdays, dragon drawings, dragon books. How to Train Your Dragon has remained my all-time favorite movie. And when I returned home from this trip, I literally went straight to my room. I found my Drake's Book of Dragonology, which I had, and located a section on Quetzalcoatl, which is a South American dragon that has no arms and no legs. It has feathered wings, and sometimes it's described to be all white.

Let's look it up.

The story goes that this thing burned itself in a turquoise chest to recompose for a vile action, and his spirit rose from the flames and became the North Star.

Wow. Okay.

Was what I saw

What an origin story.

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Quetzalcoatl finally returning to Earth? Stay mystical. See you on the other side. Nicholas Theta.

Here's like a model of it.

It's interesting. I also am Like I understand I appreciate Nicholas being like, okay, let's take into context where I was in my head

Yeah.

I want everything to be dragon. I want to see dragon. Did I misidentify what could be dragon?

But he still saw something.

He still saw something. And also I kind of feel like it's the same thing where certain creatures and things will expose themselves to those who

Who believe.

It's like for aliens with me.

To make it about me because aliens have not. And I am your biggest advocate.

I'm literally your number one fan.

Yeah. But yeah, maybe.

I don't know. I feel like

Yeah.

South America in this like big stretch of road and mountain region where there's like no one else around and they're just traveling in this bus. Here's the thing with mountains, I think I believe that literally anything can exist there that we just don't know about because chances are we have not explored every single inch of that

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mountain.

No, definitely not. And there's so many different things like

Yeah.

caves and rock faces and it's just like think about just like a freaking normal photo where they're like can you find the snow leopard? You're like No.

Speaking of I'm kind of look like Where's Waldo today.

I hear you have a little Where's Waldo vibe.

a little hat.

Oh, yeah.

Found him.

We found him.

Found him.

Finally, we've captured Waldo.

Cap Literally, he is within me. I have possessed Waldo.

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the crawler

Um okay, I have a story to end this on that is going to take us through quite a few different emotions.

Oh, no. I've already cried today.

The origins of the crawler. It's not going to make I don't think it will really make you cry. Okay, I don't think. Hey Glitties, my name is Nex, she/they. Yes, you can share my name. I shared my story on Campfire Stories and after doing so I decided to email you the origin story of my attachment. It

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was so powerful, it scared off a psychic. So, let's begin setting the scene as best as I know how. Most of this comes from my mother's memory and what she's told me regarding the incident. At the time I was about 3 to 4 years old and my older brother was about 5 to 6. We lived on the ground floor of the three-story apartment building in a small town in Wyoming. There was a woman who lived on the second floor apartment above us and she was very introverted. She didn't speak much with the neighbors and she basically spent all of her time in her apartment. And despite never seeing anyone else coming or going, my mother said that they would always hear her speaking to a man. And they would hear a deep male voice responding to her.

What worlds?

Us kids were little, of course, and we made noise especially during the daytime and my mom said this lady did not like it. She would glare at my mom and at one point my mom noticed that some of our toys that had been outside disappeared. We now believe she stole them to try and target us kids.

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Oh god.

So, my mom said things started off small. Things moving from their cabinets or cupboards open on their own. She would hear footsteps walking down the hall to our rooms while we were taking our midday naps. She would hear the voice of a man from the living room when she was in the bedroom. But then things began to escalate. My brother began to have severe night terrors. He would wake up screaming his head off in the middle of the night talking about a creature that was climbing out from under his bed and holding him down at night so he couldn't breathe.

Mind you, he's 5 or 6 years old and he's so terrified. But my mom worried that maybe it was a little bit of trauma from missing his biological father who was an alcoholic at the time and the chaotic way in which my mother and his father split. So, my mom began to take him to a child psychologist, but the night terrors did not stop. In fact, they got worse. So, too, did the rest of the hauntings. My mom started finding strange scratches at the doorframe to mine and my brother's room, and one night my mom said she heard me crying. And a woman, who we now know as my spirit guardian, Susan, was whispering in my mother's ear, "You need to wake

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up. Your baby needs you." My mom shot out of bed, rushed to my brother and I's room to find that I was wheezing heavily, struggling to breathe. She rushed me to the hospital where the doctors declared that I had kissing tonsils and needed emergency surgery to remove my tonsils as they were continuing to grow to adult size faster than my body, making it so that I couldn't breathe. So terrifying, but like

Yeah. Oh, I wish that this could be a spiritual intervention that everyone gets.

Yeah, at least you have this guardian.

Yeah.

That's why I'm like, it's going to bring you through a lot of emotions. You got good, but we've got really scary. My mom was terrified. She had no idea how I suddenly developed it when no one else in my family ever had this. But about 3 months after my surgery is when my mom really hit her breaking point. She had just come home from work, the babysitter left, and my mom heard my brother screaming from his night terror again. She hurried back to the room to try to comfort my brother, but the door wouldn't open.

Oh, [ __ ] no.

And she could hear this inhuman growl from the other side while my brother was screaming. She began to slam her body

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against the door to try to get it open, but the door wouldn't budge. She rushed to her room to grab her phone, was both surprised and panicked to find me sleeping on her queen-size bed right on the edge, about to fall off the side of the bed. She scooped me up, called her best friend, who was a gay man, we love him, he's the best gay uncle I could ask for, to come help break down the door. Even D, with his thick cowboy boots he always wears, couldn't get the door to budge. So, my mom went to call 911 when suddenly the door popped open. My brother was still screaming and crying, and he had scratches and bruises down his arms and legs, along with deep scratch marks that led under the bed. Remember how he said the creature crawled out from under the bed?

[sighs]

My mom took both of us and fled to my grandpa's house for the night and refused to ever enter that apartment again. My uncle helped her move everything out and my mom does not understand how I got to her bed and out of the room. That babysitter was a family friend who never would have left me in her bed in a place where I could potentially get unhurt. And I was too small to open doors let alone climb up

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into my mom's bed without help.

It's because the other spirit, the guardian, was grabbing her and rushing her out.

Yeah. Ooh, I have chills. This is like so terrifying. And I keep thinking like what would I do in this situation and it's it's hard cuz it's like I want to fight the demon, but is that what the is that what I want

moving out is the right thing to do.

Yeah.

Later on, my mom asked a family of another family who lived on the top floor, so I think the third floor, if they ever experienced any odd happenings as they lived there for years before my mom and I and my brother moved in. The family said they didn't experience anything until the woman who moved in to the second floor moved in. Like my mom.

Damn.

It started off small. Scratches that made her paranoid that they had pests, sounds of people walking and voices. Family was worried that she was getting dementia, but her memory didn't seem to fade.

And this is the woman that was stealing the toys on the second floor?

The one who moved in. But so there was a third family who lived up top who's telling

they started experiencing stuff when

second floor woman moved in.

Complainer, toy stealer.

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Yeah, neighbor moved in.

One of the woman on the third floor's daughters moved in with her a few months before they decided to move her into a nursing home. That was when things were getting really bad for my mom and for us. They began to see a large shadow figure looming in doorways and the woman that my mom was in contact with, who saw everything, stated that apparently the same night my mother left with my brother and I, just hours before that, they had found blood dripping from the walls and in a panic called a priest to come bless the apartment. After that blessing, this thing did not go away and the older lady's health began to decline.

[sighs and gasps]

The older lady on the third floor.

I just really want the blood to be tested.

I know. There's only a few cases that we've heard of this happening.

The bleeding house in

Yeah.

Atlanta.

But like like what is it?

I don't know. So, tragically, this woman from the third floor moved to a nursing home where she died a year later. After her death, the landlord apparently reported to them, as he was a family friend of theirs, that he evicted the woman in the second floor apartment after the new tenants in the basement apartment began

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to report blood dripping from their walls, too. And during an inspection, he found that this woman on the second floor had carved demonic sigils into the floorboards and attempted to cover them up with a rug. But when he flipped it over, it revealed the sigil. He cited property damage as his reasons for eviction and spent two years trying to renovate and fix that second floor apartment, but workers reported tools going missing, constant workplace accidents, and eventually the entire construction crew he hired refused to return. So, he sold the entire

This is just an apartment. It's not like a giant house to renovate.

Well, it's like the Yes, they were renovating the

Well, like just the second floor that he was trying to fix.

Eventually, he sold the entire apartment building. Then they tore Oh my god, what a like landlord horror story, too.

Honestly, the company that he sold it to ended up tearing the whole building down. I'm not sure what it is now, but I know that whatever entities or demons that woman summoned, two of them stayed with me and my brother our whole lives. Mine is what we call the crawler, and my brother's is a mimic entity, which I can

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share more experiences about later. Love your podcast. I'm so happy to get to join you on Campfire Stories and hope to see you on the other side. Next.

Damn.

I am glad that the landlord I mean, I know it probably helps that he was friends with some of the tenants. But like that he was able to take action, one, and two, like just generally believe what was going on and know who the cause of it was. Like enough to do like a little investigation.

Dripping down It's not even dripping down cuz it was dripping The third floor was experiencing blood dripping down their wall. So it's not like it's coming from the second floor.

[sighs and gasps]

God. Like what do you even say? You're like there's like it looks like blood, I don't know, like rust-colored liquid coming down.

I do not know.

That is absolutely horrifying.

I'm going to find kitchen things. I know. I have 340 emails in my folder to pick from.

I mean we used That's just like how we used to do encounters. It was just like anything goes. And then we realized after like 2 years that we kept accidentally unplanned making themes.

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And a theme is always fun.

A theme is always fun.

Yeah, but it's also always fun to mix it up once in a while.

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We love you.

And be well.

See you on the other side.

Very spooky.